Scallop

• The Scallop is an invented stanzaic form written in sixains. It was created by Marie L Blanche Adams.
  
  The Scallop is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc.

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1882#baccresiez

My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource at PMO

My example poem

What Need for Rhyme    (Scallop)

What need

have you for rhyme?

Is there a purpose served,

are rhyming words deserved

all of the time?

Indeed!

If I

should someday choose

to forego rhyming verse

my spirit would be worse

and I would lose,

so why?

© Lawrencealot -  April 4, 2014

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